Chord Quotes

157 Chord quotes by 142 unique authors

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to… — Willie Nelson
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best… — Joyce Carol Oates
A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a… — Josh Radnor
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. — Lou Reed
I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for… — Lou Reed
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a… — Keanu Reeves
Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want… — Ville Valo
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music. — Sid Vicious
Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open… — Angus Young
I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key… — Neil Young
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled… — Frank Zappa
Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the… — Nick Hornby
the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world… — John O'Donohue
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or… — William Cowper
I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single… — David Levithan
I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal… — Nicholson Baker
Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a… — Jodi Picoult
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all… — Joni Mitchell
Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a… — Maggie Stiefvater

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